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Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie.

Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user's device. These websites give for more information on cookies:

Lists of cookies used on thurrock.gov.uk and our other websites are shown below, grouping the cookies into categories and explaining what they are used for. These can be set on any of our websites.

Strictly necessary

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for cannot be provided.

Accepting these cookies is a condition of using this site. If you prevent these cookies from being set, we can not guarantee your security or predict how the web site will perform during your visit.

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Session Cookie

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SSESSc68072c9e6c411cc1da1fd8b54e3f741 (secure)

These cookie is set when the site is first loaded by the browser. These are session cookies, and are deleted when the user closes the browser.

These cookies contains a random string that is used to identify the user while browsing pages with in the web site. Any data that is stored in the session is stored on the web server and not in the cookie, this data is deleted at the end of the session.

Performance

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. These are set when the site is first visited, the individual cookies have different expiry lengths.

Functional

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make – such as your user name, language or the region you are in – and provide enhanced, more personal features. For example, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located.

These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

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There are currently no functional cookies set.

Targeting

These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission.

These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.

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There are currently no targeting cookies set.

List of cookies set on all our websites

The table below show which cookie categories are used on each website.

Third party cookies

From time to time we may embed content from other sites, such as Flickr and YouTube. When you visit a page with content that is embedded, the web site that the content is from may set cookies.

We do not have any control over the setting of these cookies, for more information you should visit the relevant third party web site.

Third party IP address processing

We sometimes use services such as bit.ly to shorten web addresses that are shared, for example on Twitter and Facebook.

These services provide us with anonymised, aggregated statistics relating to use of the shortened web addresses, for example by telling us how many times each has been clicked on. We do not have access to the IP address of your computer collected by these sites when you use the service, or any other identifiable information about you. Nor do these services have any access to data collected on our websites. Go to the bit.ly privacy policy page for more information.